Tag: musical

• THE SHOW MUST GO ON

  

  The lights go up, the cast take their bow. Silence greets them from the empty auditorium. They keep going because there is nothing else to be done. Night after night, show after show, repeat and repeat. Bereft of enthusiasm they go through the motions, a ghost-like shadow of their former ardour. Delirium set in weeks…

  Iain Kelly

  26/02/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  boredom, coronavirus, cough, covid-19, creative writing, drabble, empty, fever, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, ghostly, isolation, literature, lockdown, musical, panic, Plague, quarantine, repeat, routine, Short Story, show, story, theatre, Writing, writing prompt

• THE UMBRELLAS OF NEW YORK

  

  Wind blew through the trees, blowing the snow up from the ground, gusting around Guy’s face. He pulled his collar up further. Across the park he watched Madeline, her bright green umbrella luminous against the white background. Their daughter, Francis, gleefully skipped around her. ‘She’s moved on, married someone else, she’s happy. Leave them be.’…

  Iain Kelly

  19/09/2018

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  central park, cherbourg, creative writing, daughter, ending, Fiction, film, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, injury, literature, love, musical, new york, relationship, return, Romance, Short Story, snow, story, umbrellas, umbrellas of cherbourg, war, Writing, writing prompt